Dressed for Success

Posted by Hallee on Feb 23, 2010 in Biblical womanhood, Holy matrimony, Housekeeping, Life, Marriage

He’d said this to me for years – in fact, in an email I received from him a week after I met him, he extolled how much he loved the fact that I put an effort into looking nice. But this time, reading it, I took it as an accusation – as in, “I would appreciate it if you would put an effort into your appearance, but you don’t because you’re fat, ugly, frumpy, limp.”

Tags: Clothing, Fashion, Gregg, Human Interest, Jeans, Skirt

Fresh Milled Flour

Posted by Hallee on Feb 9, 2010 in Hallee's Galley, Housekeeping, Stewardship, kitchen & cooking tips

You may remember this post from December where I received my new grain mill. Well, I had just recently been to the commissary, where I’d stocked up on 3 months worth of groceries, which included about 100 pounds of flour. As such, I had to work through my existing stock of flour before I started playing with this new gadget.

Tags: Agriculture, Bread, Cereals, Flour, Food and drink, Great Harvest Bread Company, Hallee's Galley, Hospitality/Recreation, Oat, Staple foods, Wheat, Whole wheat flour

Red Handed

Posted by Hallee on Feb 8, 2010 in Housekeeping, Parenting

The pictures didn’t come out. I’m irritated because you can’t see how bad this really was. These are little Jeb handprints – red handprints – more specifically, handprints made from hands smeared with red lipstick. I don’t want to really discuss the incident or the red handprints that went all the way up the stair banister, the stairwell wall, the upstairs hallway, the boys’ bedroom door…

Tags: Detergent, Dishwashing liquid, Fingerprint, Housekeeping, Science

Blizzard Bloghop

Posted by Hallee on Feb 4, 2010 in Biblical womanhood, Blog Stuff, Christian Faith, Hallee's Galley, Housekeeping, Life, Marriage, Parenting

For those of you who read me who are not in the “blogging world”, this weekend is a huge blogging conference called Blissdom. Some of us couldn’t go because an ocean separates them from Nashville, some of us chose not to go because our husbands went back to Afghanistan last weekend and we thought the stress of Mommy going away for a whole weekend would be too much for our toddlers, and some of us just couldn’t go.

Tags: Afghanistan, Blizzard Bloghop Tour, Blog Stuff, household6diva, Human Interest, Internet, Nashville, Social information processing, Technology

Guest Post: Couponning 101’s Heather on Money Saving Grocery Shopping

Posted by Hallee on Jan 19, 2010 in Budgeting, Housekeeping, Stewardship

Hi, My name is Heather and I’m a super coupon junkie. I have a really hard time paying full price for anything and beyond that, I’m in it for the rush! There’s a thrill to stand at the checkout and watch the total $$ go down as the total savings goes up… I’m a huge fan of couponning and making every sale work for me, so much that I actually blog about it at http://couponning101.blogspot.com

Being a guest blogger on Hallee’s site is kinda like going to my first AA meeting – I’m sharing my addiction with you… but unlike AA, this addiction can save you tons of money a year on your groceries no matter where you live in the USA

Tags: Budgeting, Business/Finance, Competition, Couponing, Human Interest, Marketing, Online shopping, Price, Pricing, Stewardship, Unit price

Spotting Coupon Fraud

Posted by Hallee on Jan 8, 2010 in Housekeeping, Life

Southernsavers.com posted a tutorial on how to spot a fraudulent online coupon. I hope it gives you some insight, maybe teaches you something you didn’t already know.

Tags: Coupon, Fraudulent online coupon, Online coupons, Online sources

Christmas Tour of My Home

Posted by Hallee on Dec 17, 2009 in Housekeeping, Life

I’ll be honest with you, I’ve hesitated about doing this post for a while now. I am not a decorator, nor do I pretend to be. I don’t know what to do or how to do it. I can copy what someone else has done, but when I go to copy it, I have a super incredible really hard time spending the money to do it.

Case in point: my husband built the bookshelves and fireplace mantle you’ll see in these pictures in August when he was home for vacation. In August. Most of the shelves are still bare. I just really don’t know what to put on them.

But, in the spirit of the Yule, and in hoping that after I hit the after Christmas mega sales on decorating items, this will bring you a little bit of joy and maybe provide me with a “look how much I improved since last year” post next year. :)

Tags: Bethlehem, Christmas, Christmas decorating, Decorating, Holiday decorating, Human Interest

Pondering Pennies Past & Present

Posted by Hallee on Dec 10, 2009 in Biblical womanhood, Budgeting, Housekeeping, Life, Marriage, Stewardship, biblical manhood

A friend’s blog post from this week inspired me to write this today. She blogged about taking over their family’s finances and looking forward to the coming year and seeing what she can do about emergency funds and vacation funds and such.

Tags: Biblical manhood, Biblical womanhood, Budget, Budgeting, Marriage, Stewardship

Easy Christmas Wreath

Posted by Hallee on Dec 9, 2009 in Housekeeping, Stewardship

I priced Christmas wreaths sometime before Thanksgiving and was just appalled at what they’re getting for these things. I was at Garden Ridge, so I looked at a $49 wreath and made one as nearly identical to it as I could.

Tags: Christmas, Floristry, Holiday fare, Housekeeping, Interior design, Stewardship, Wreath

Taking Advantage of the Chaos – UPDATED

Posted by Hallee on Dec 7, 2009 in Biblical womanhood, Blog Stuff, Housekeeping

So, I’m going to play around with how I do things in my home, shift things around, bring homeschool down to three days a week, and see what I can do so that everything still gets done and I can still write as much as I need to and still give this blog all of the focus it needs.